Mother Quotes by Donna Tartt

9 Mother quotes by Donna Tartt

Donna Tartt’s take on motherhood is thoughtful, often layered with literary depth. This short collection showcases her ability to portray mothers as complex, shaping forces within personal narratives.

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“No, he’s asleep. Where’s my mother? Is”

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Death is the mother of beauty,” said Henry. “And what is beauty?” “Terror.

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“And though it's a bleak thing to admit all these years later, still I've never met anyone who made me feel loved…

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“I knew my mother’s feet, her clothes, her two-tone black and white shoes - and long after I was sure of it…

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“For in the deepest, most unshakable part of myself reason was useless. She was the missing kingdom, the unbruised part of myself…

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“WHEN I WAS A boy, after my mother died, I always tried hard to hold her in my mind as I was…

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“not that I’d even been thinking about Cinzia until the moment before, but it had all seemed so solid, so immutable, the…

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“I realized that the childish impression I had always had of my father, as Just Lawgiver, was entirely wrong. We were utterly…

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“I missed her so much I wanted to die: a hard, physical longing, like a craving for air underwater. Lying awake, I…

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“The silence between us was happy and strange, connected by the cord and the icy voices thinly echoing. “You don’t have to talk,” she…

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“It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from all the world, that no one and…

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“You didn’t meet many people who moved freely through the world with such a vigorous contempt for it and at the same time such…

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“maybe that’s what’s waiting for us at the end of the journey, a majesty unimaginable until the very moment we find ourselves walking through…

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“lights and moods and seasons was to see it a thousand different ways and to keep it shut in the dark—a thing made of…

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A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves…

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